Prevalence and selected determinants of the risk of problem gambling among Polish secondary school students

CONCLUSIONS: The findings show that in the studied population 7.2% were pathological gamblers and 41.8% had not gambled during the 12 months prior to the study. These findings are consistent with the literature. There seems to be a clear trend in which pathological gambling is found most frequently among technical secondary school students, and least frequently among those from secondary schools of general education. In addition, persons who had lived (until the age of 10) in rural areas scored the lowest in SOGS-RA, while those from cities below 50,000 residents, scored the highest. In families with a gambling member, pathological gambling was found 1.7 times more frequently.PMID:33356074 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/127590

Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM - December 28, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Iwona Niewiadomska Lech Panasiuk Joanna Chwaszcz Marzena Furtak-Niczyporuk Piotr Dreher Karol Zygo Janusz Jaroszy ński Aneta Mela Source Type: research